According to current and former contract workers who were responsible for training the YouTube AI, guidelines used to train the AI are often contradictory and confusing and this is causing the issues with child exploitation videos remaining on YouTube. Further, YouTube has promised to hire 10,000 moderators to get rid of inappropriate videos, but they might want to take a look at their guidelines used to train the AI.



These documents and interviews reveal a confusing and sometimes contradictory set of guidelines, according to raters, that asks them to promote “high quality” videos based largely on production values, even when the content is disturbing. This not only allows thousands of potentially exploitative kids videos to remain online, but could also be algorithmically amplifying their reach.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Poor Training of AI may be Cause of Child Exploitation Problem on YouTube

South Korea has decided to jump on the cryptocurrency regulation bandwagon and will no longer allow anonymous cryptocurrency accounts. Also, they will have regulators continually monitoring the exchanges from this point on. Further, new legislation may be put into place that would shut down all exchanges of cryptocurrency in South Korea. South Korea is a big player in the crypto market and sweeping changes like this will probably be felt across the global market.



While interest in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have surged this year, there’s a hefty amount of volatility in the crypto market, which is a risk that the South Korean government is trying to cull with regulation. This month, bitcoin’s price hit an all-time high that approached the $20,000 mark after starting the year around $1,000. And along with large price fluctuations, some cryptocurrency exchanges have also been hit with major hacks — South Korean exchange Youbit filed for bankruptcy after losing $35 million to a hack earlier this month and $72 million in a hack that took place in April.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – South Korea Latest Country to Enact Cryptocurrency Regulations

According to current and former contract workers who were responsible for training the YouTube AI, guidelines used to train the AI are often contradictory and confusing and this is causing the issues with child explotation videos remaining on YouTube. Further, YouTube has promised to hire 10,000 moderators to get rid of inappropriate videos, but they might want to take a look at their guidelines used to train the AI.



These documents and interviews reveal a confusing and sometimes contradictory set of guidelines, according to raters, that asks them to promote “high quality” videos based largely on production values, even when the content is disturbing. This not only allows thousands of potentially exploitative kids videos to remain online, but could also be algorithmically amplifying their reach.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Poor Training of AI may be Cause of Child Explotation Problem on YouTube

The latest beta of Chrome 64 Beta has a new feature a lot of Chromebook users have been wanting for a long time. In the beta you can now run apps side by side without one of them pausing or causing some kind of weird issue when they aren’t in focus. So keep your fingers crossed that this feature makes it into the 64 Stable release. Check out the video to see how it works.



This works like most users would expect it to, and we can’t wait until this is a universally available feature on Chromebooks with Play Store access. It simply makes the entire experience feel SO MUCH more native. While this is available in Chrome 64 Beta, it is not 100% that we’ll see the feature in 64 Stable, but the liklihood is high and it is a move that will make the overall usability of Chromebooks much, much better.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Chrome OS to Allow Android Apps to Run in Parallel